It’s a menu that may stay in infamy.
A Manassas, Virginia, nation membership was pressured to apologize Tuesday — for its 9/11-themed meals menu that included such tone-deaf gadgets as a chocolate silk “Pentagon Pie,” “2977 Chowder” and “First Responder Flatbread.”
The particular seafood menu was promoted by The Clubhouse at Aquia Harbour. The quantity 2,977 marks the official tally of fatalities on Sept. 11, 2001.
Diners on the lookout for a style of every part might order the “By no means Neglect Sampler.”
The menu shortly confronted backlash on social media, with one Twitter consumer calling the promotion “appalling.”
It has since been taken down.
Clubhouse supervisor George White issued a mea culpa on Fb Tuesday evening, saying, “I apologize for these I offended with the 9/11 seafood Sunday publish.”
“My intention was to deliver consideration to that horrific day 21 years in the past. To honor those that misplaced a lot as properly [as] those that gave every part that day,” he maintained. “We may have a brand new theme tomorrow.”
Aquia Harbour didn't instantly reply to requests for remark.
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